Written by Matthias Daffah
Source: Star Radio Liberia
The National Elections Commission says it would on Friday release the official timetable for the 2011 Legislative and Presidential elections.
A release issued Thursday said the Commission will also use the occasion to declare its position on the Joint Resolution passed by the Legislature.
The controversial Joint Resolution was later signed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf .
The action by the two branches of government has since received widespread criticisms from civil society and Liberians in the Diaspora on grounds that it is illegal.
The Legislature approved the resolution not to use the census results to prescribe a threshold for constituency representation but rather prescribed nine additional seats in the House.
The joint resolution did not also include a threshold as provided for in Article 80 of the Liberian Constitution.
The Constitutional provision mandates the Legislature to prescribe a threshold for electoral constituency representation in the House following the conduct of a national census every ten years.
